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Monday, February 9, 2015

It's Not Just Brian Williams

By Alan
Caruba

“When
reporters forfeit their credibility by making up stories, sources, or quotes,
we are right to mock them. When their violations are significant or repeated,
they should be fired,” says Charles Lipson, a professor of political science at
the University of Chicago. “Demanding honest reporting has nothing to do with
the reporter’s politics, personality, or personal life. It is about
professional standards and our reasonable expectations.”

Are we
seeing a trend here? Dan Rather at CBS and now Brian Williams at NBC? Well, two
news anchors are not a trend, but biased and bad reporting is. It’s not new,
but it does seem to be gathering momentum and nowhere has it been more apparent
than the millions of words written and spoken about “global warming” and now
“climate change.”

It would
be easy and convenient to lay the blame on America’s Liar-in-Chief, President
Barack Obama, but the “global warming” hoax began well before he came on the
scene. It was the invention of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) dating back to its creation in 1988 when it was
established by the UN Environment Program and the World Meteorological
Organization.

The IPCC
came to world attention with the creation of the Kyoto Protocol, an
international treaty that committed the nations that signed it to reduce
“greenhouse gas emissions” based on the premise that global warming—a dramatic
increase—was real and that it was man-made. The Protocol was adopted in Kyoto,
Japan, on December 11, 1997. The United States Senate rejected it and our
neighbor, Canada, later withdrew from it. Both China and India were exempted, free to continue building
numerous coal-fired plants to generate the energy they need for development.

Today,
though, the President is an unrelenting voice about the dangers of “climate
change” which he and John Kerry, our Secretary of State, have rated the “greatest
threat” to the world. Obama’s national security strategy document was released
just a day before he equated the history of Christianity with the barbarism of
today’s Islamic State.

The national
security document included terrorism to which it devoted one out of its 29
pages.Essentially Obama sees all the
problems of the world, real and imagined, as challenges that require “strategic
patience and persistence.” This is his way of justifying doing nothing or as
little as possible.

Still, according
to Obama, the climate is such a threat, his new budget would allocate $4
billion to the Environmental Protection Agency for a new “Clean Power State
Incentive Fund” to bribe more states to close even more power plants around the
nation. He wants to increase the EPA’s overall budget by 6% to $8.6 billion.
The Republican Congress is not likely to allocate such funding.

As for the
environment, there have been so many lies put forth by the government and by a
panoply of environmental organizations of every description, buoyed by legions
of “scientists” and academics lining their pockets with billions in grants, that
it is understandable that many Americans still think that “global warming” is
real despite the fact that the Earth is now 19 years into a well-documented
cooling cycle.

Not only are all the children in our schools still being taught
utter garbage about it, but none who have graduated in recent years ever lived
a day during the non-existent “global warming.”

On
February 7, Christopher Booker, writing in The Telegraph, a British daily newspaper, wrote an article, “The fiddling with
temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever.”You are not likely to find any comparable
reporting in a U.S. daily newspaper.

Citing
research comparing the official temperature graphs from three weather stations
in Paraguay against what had originally been reported by them, it turned out
that their cooling trend had been
reversed by the U.S. government’s Global Historical Climate Network and
then amplified by “two of the main official surface records, the Goddard
Institute for Space Studies (Giss) and the National Climate Data Center.”

Why should
we be surprised that the national media continues to report on “global warming”
when our government has been engaged in the deliberate distortion of the actual
data? It is, however, the same national media that has provided virtually no
investigative journalism to reveal what has been going on for decades.

What fate
befalls Brian Williams is a mere blip on the screen of events. At this writing,
I cannot see how NBC could ever keep him as the managing editor and
news anchor.

What
matters regarding much of the product of the mainstream media is the continuing
torrent of “news” about “global warming” and “climate change”; the former is a
complete hoax and the latter a factor of life on planet Earth over which humans
have no control, nor contribute to in any fashion.

4 comments:

Alan, I read this morning about the report coming out of Great Britain. Everyone of the organizations and people involved with these lies should be fined into oblivion then sent to jail for the remainder of their lives, including Al Gore!If any company propagated purposeful lies to further their personal agenda they would be fined for fraud and shut down.

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I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.